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Son arrested for attempting to murder mother with baseball bat

Original post made
on Feb 22, 2012

San Ramon Police arrested Aaron Ricks, 27, in the attempted murder of his mother on Feb. 20. Ricks allegedly beat his mother in the head and body with a baseball bat causing serious injury and breaking her arm.

Another sad commentary on our failed mental health system and on the lack of insight into significant mental illness. There is little likelihood that it will not be discovered that this young man has been ill for years and the family remained in denial or couldn't or refused to get help.

Posted by Another Bill
a resident of Danville
on Feb 22, 2012 at 7:46 am

Bill - do you know for a fact that he was mentally ill? Or maybe he was a chronic drug addict, petty criminal, etc? Let's not paint the kid as a victim of a failed system when in fact he may have just been a loser that made bad choices and will now do time in prison. Not to mention that his Mom is the victim here...

Because, as we all know, the public school system takes millions of normal kids each year and turns them into murderous thugs, right? As opposed to the religious schools, which only produce paragons of virtue. Like Catholic priests...

The only person to blame is the kid who did this to his mother. If you're that screwed up no matter how you got there to do this to another person let alone your mother off to jail you go. Nothing to sob about here. The kid was a jerkoff. Period. My heart goes out to his mother.

Sources state the boy is Schizophrenic and had been in/out of hospitals for years. The family was doing their best to watch over him at home but the illness won. It's a very sad story. The other 3 boys in the family are healthy.